Carrownagappul Bog
ecological site in County Galway, Ireland
The Carrownagappul Bog (Irish: Portach Ceathrú na gCapall) Special Area of Conservation or SAC is a Natura 2000 site in County Galway, close to the town of Mountbellew in County Galway, Ireland. The site qualifies for Special Area of Conservation status under three criteria: the presence of active raised bog, of degraded raised bogs still capable of natural regeneration, and of depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion.
Location
The Carrownagappul Bog SAC is located approximately 3 km north of the town of Mountbellew in east County Galway, in the townlands of Ballynalahy, Carrownagannive, Carrownagappul, Cloonconore, Gunnode, Springlawn and Tully. Schedule 1 of the Statutory Instrument for this site (S.I. No. 140/2017) identifies it as encompassing an area of 485.66 hectares. A detailed map of the SAC area is included in the National Parks and Wildlife Service Conservation Objectives for the site. A satellite map (and illustrative video) of the bog is also available from the Carrownagappul project website, Galway's Living Bog.
The archival records for Carrownagappul on the Logainm.ie website (the Placenames Database of Ireland, which records the placenames data, records and research of the State) note that the anglicised name ‘Carrownagappul’ or in the original Irish language, Ceathrú na gCapall, corresponds to “the quarter of the horses”. No further explanation is given there to link the area to horses. The writer and historian Patrick Weston Joyce also referred to Carrownagappul as “Ceathramha-na-gcapall, quarter-land of the cappuls or horses”.
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